An empire on display : English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War / Peter H. Hoffenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffenberg, Peter H., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exhibitions--Australia--History.

Exhibitions.

Exhibitions--Great Britain--History.

Exhibitions--India--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Empire sixty years later, taking special interest in the interactive nature of the exhibition experience, the long-term consequences for the participants and host societies, and the ways in which such popular gatherings revealed dissent as well as celebration.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Exhibitions and the new imperialism; 2. The exhibition wallahs; 3. Commissioners and the state; 4. Consumers, producers, and markets; 5. Terrae nullius?; 6. Machines-in-motion; 7. Imperial and national taxonomies; 8. The imperial pilgrims' progress; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-404) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92296-4

1-59734-594-6

OCLC:

475927936